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London, 1826: Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld. Ten years later, another man teaches art in the penal colony of New South Wales. But as becomes clear when he falls in love with one of his pupils, no one may escape their past forever. (Source: Trove)

Notes

Epigraph: We are born with the dead:See, they return, and bring us with them. T.S Eliot, Four Quartets.

The Resurrectionist was selected as one of the eight featured books on the 2008 'Richard & Judy' Summer Read list in the United Kingdom.

Works about this Work

What Next for Rosemary Cameron?Jason Steger,
2008single work column — Appears in:
The Age,14 June2008;(p. 34)AbstractA column canvassing current literary news including reports on the Melbourne Writers' Festival, a new global appointment for HarperCollins, and the inclusion of James Bradley's The Resurrectionist on Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List in the United Kingdom.

Novel Views of HistoryHelen MacDonald,
2006single work essay — Appears in:
The Weekend Australian,25-26 March2006;(p. 14-15)AbstractHelen MacDonald discusses Bradley's historical novel about dissection, The Resurrectionist, and her own non-fiction work on the same historical subject, Human Remains : Episodes in Human Dissection (Melbourne University Press, 2005), in light of the current interest in literary non-fiction and the arguments for and against history being presented by historians or novelists.

Novel Views of HistoryHelen MacDonald,
2006single work essay — Appears in:
The Weekend Australian,25-26 March2006;(p. 14-15)AbstractHelen MacDonald discusses Bradley's historical novel about dissection, The Resurrectionist, and her own non-fiction work on the same historical subject, Human Remains : Episodes in Human Dissection (Melbourne University Press, 2005), in light of the current interest in literary non-fiction and the arguments for and against history being presented by historians or novelists.

What Next for Rosemary Cameron?Jason Steger,
2008single work column — Appears in:
The Age,14 June2008;(p. 34)AbstractA column canvassing current literary news including reports on the Melbourne Writers' Festival, a new global appointment for HarperCollins, and the inclusion of James Bradley's The Resurrectionist on Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List in the United Kingdom.